compat: SemVer version windows between app and server

Both sides now declare what they will talk to, and enforce it. Two axes kept
deliberately separate, because conflating them is the trap:

  protocol_version  — CAN these builds talk. The correctness axis. Below 1.0.0
                      the minor is the breaking axis, per SemVer §4.
  release window    — MAY they, per policy. [min, max), advertised in the
                      profile, overridable by the operator.

The server refuses out-of-window apps with 426 and a body naming both versions
and the accepted range; the app checks the profile in both directions before a
run rather than discovering mid-measurement that it will be refused.

Three rules that shape the rest:

  - GET /v1/profile is never gated. It is where a refused client learns which
    version it needs; gating it leaves the user with a network error instead of
    an answer, which is precisely the confusion this exists to remove.
  - An unparseable or absent version is "unknown", and is allowed. Development
    builds report "dev", and a client too old to send the header cannot be
    identified anyway.
  - Bounds sit at breaking boundaries, not at releases, so shipping a patch
    never requires editing a range. The app's server minimum is 0.4.2 for a
    stated reason: earlier multi-homed servers mis-addressed granted sends and
    the client measured 100% downstream loss that never happened.

The app's versionCode is now derived from its SemVer instead of being a second
number someone has to remember to bump.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

server/internal/control/compat_gate_test.go

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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Echolot contributors
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+package control
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"echo-lot.app/server/internal/compat"
+	"echo-lot.app/server/internal/store"
+)
+
+func rangeOrDie(t *testing.T, min, max string) compat.Range {
+	t.Helper()
+	r, err := compat.ParseRange(min, max)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return r
+}
+
+func TestGateRefusesOutOfRangeApps(t *testing.T) {
+	s := &Server{AppRange: rangeOrDie(t, "0.2.0", "1.0.0")}
+	reached := false
+	h := s.requireCompatibleApp(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+		reached = true
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+	})
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		version  string
+		wantCode int
+		wantThru bool
+	}{
+		{"0.2.0", http.StatusOK, true}, // exactly the minimum is in range
+		{"0.9.9", http.StatusOK, true},
+		{"0.1.9", http.StatusUpgradeRequired, false}, // too old
+		{"1.0.0", http.StatusUpgradeRequired, false}, // maximum is exclusive
+		{"2.0.0", http.StatusUpgradeRequired, false}, // too new
+		{"", http.StatusOK, true},                    // unknown: allowed, see below
+		{"dev", http.StatusOK, true},                 // development build
+	} {
+		reached = false
+		req := httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/v1/sessions", nil)
+		if tc.version != "" {
+			req.Header.Set(AppVersionHeader, tc.version)
+		}
+		rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		h(rec, req)
+		if rec.Code != tc.wantCode || reached != tc.wantThru {
+			t.Errorf("app %q: got code=%d reached=%v, want code=%d reached=%v",
+				tc.version, rec.Code, reached, tc.wantCode, tc.wantThru)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A refusal that does not say what version to install is only marginally better than a timeout.
+func TestRefusalNamesTheAcceptedWindow(t *testing.T) {
+	s := &Server{AppRange: rangeOrDie(t, "0.2.0", "1.0.0")}
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	req := httptest.NewRequest("POST", "/v1/runs", nil)
+	req.Header.Set(AppVersionHeader, "0.1.0")
+	s.requireCompatibleApp(func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {})(rec, req)
+
+	var body map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &body); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("refusal body is not JSON: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, key := range []string{"error", "app_version", "accepts_app", "protocol_version"} {
+		if body[key] == nil || body[key] == "" {
+			t.Errorf("refusal omits %q, so the client cannot explain itself: %v", key, body)
+		}
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(body["accepts_app"].(string), "0.2.0") {
+		t.Errorf("accepts_app should state the minimum: %v", body["accepts_app"])
+	}
+}
+
+// The profile is how a refused client learns which version it needs. Gating it would leave the
+// user with a network error instead of an answer, which defeats the whole check.
+func TestProfileIsReachableRegardlessOfVersion(t *testing.T) {
+	st, err := store.Open(t.TempDir())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s := &Server{
+		AppRange: rangeOrDie(t, "9.0.0", ""), // nothing current could satisfy this
+		Store:    st,
+	}
+	req := httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/v1/profile", nil)
+	req.Header.Set(AppVersionHeader, "0.1.0")
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	s.Handler().ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	// The request carries no credential, so the handler answers 401 — the point is that it is
+	// the *handler* answering, not the version gate turning it into 426.
+	if rec.Code == http.StatusUpgradeRequired {
+		t.Fatal("the profile endpoint must never be gated on app version")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestZeroValueRangeFallsBackToTheBuiltInDefault(t *testing.T) {
+	s := &Server{} // nothing configured
+	got := s.appRange()
+	want := DefaultAppRange()
+	if got.Min != want.Min || got.HasMax != want.HasMax || got.Max != want.Max {
+		t.Fatalf("appRange() = %s, want the built-in default %s", got, want)
+	}
+}